15 Nov 2025 - 12:09am

How woke and anti-woke erase blackness We must see race, but not be ruled by it

Glenn Loury

21.04

Left and Right get equality wrong College shouldn’t be the only route to success

Michael Lind

18.03

Cambridge University doesn’t need DEI Affirmative action is an affront to meritocracy

David Abulafia

29.12

Don’t blame SATs for American inequality Jack Buckley et al.'s 'Measuring Success'

Freddie deBoer

10.02

In defence of class There's security in knowing your place in life

Justin Webb

07.07

Americans are doomed to fail They feel too weak and stupid to make a difference

Justin Webb

31.05

The problem with power couples Meritocracy has been corrupted by a new ruling class

Adrian Wooldridge

09.02

Who created the self-made man? A generation of risk-takers owe their success to the welfare state

Selina Todd

11.09

What we meritocracy critics get wrong Selection by merit is not the problem — the overwhelming focus on academic intelligence is

David Goodhart

18.08

Is snobbery as bad as racism? The British are so sensitive about it — but not the inequities of class that it's based on

Cosmo Landesman

16.10

The deluded cult of social justice Woke revolutionaries don't want to repair society. They just want to overthrow the existing social order

John Gray

03.10

The war on social mobility Meritocracy might not be working, but that doesn't mean we should junk the system.

James Kirkup